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Music Monday – Pace’s First Day of Kindergarten (Video Edition)

Posted 10 September 2012 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Sad § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Ryan Meili Book Event at Regina Public Library – Wed Sept 12, 7pm #yqr #skpoli #skndpldr

If you’re interested in learning more about Dr. Ryan Meili, a rumoured candidate for the leadership of the Saskatchewan NDP, why not pop down to Regina Public Library’s Central Branch next Wednesday evening for his Regina book launch event? This event follows successful launches at the public libraries in Swift Current and Yorkton as well […]

Posted 06 September 2012 § Library § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “What’s gonna happen to you/You have woke up too soon/And found the world rearranged/And now your feelings have changed”

Shea found this one which is timely for Pace’s first day of kindergarten this week (and also for triggering tears in his very mixed emotion parents):

Posted 03 September 2012 § Baby § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Pace § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

“Breaking Bad” on Wikia & Reddit

“Breaking Bad” has made Sunday one of my favourite nights of the week, doubly so thanks to sites like Wikia and the spoiler-heavy BrBa sub-reddit.

Posted 02 September 2012 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Sappy Sunday – The 100 Saddest Songs

A whole bunch of sadness in convenient list form. Coincidentally, I’ve just made a playlist on Rdio called “Guaranteed Tears” where I tried to collect all of the songs that have made me cry in the past. (Sad songs list via MetaFilter)  

Posted 26 August 2012 § MemoryLane § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

800 People on the Waiting List for “Fifty Shades of Grey” at Saskatchewan Libraries

Posted 22 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Library § Meme § Saskatchewan § UK § United States § Video § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Thou shall not judge a book by its cover/Thou shall not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover”

Posted 20 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § Randomness § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Rape? Rape Who? Rape Jokes – Are They Funny?

About a month ago, there was a minor uproar online after a female patron at a comedy show posted of an extremely unsettling experience her and her friend had on a Tumblr blog. The two women decided to go to a show featuring well-known comic Dane Cook (who they’d heard of) with Daniel Tosh (who […]

Posted 19 August 2012 § Censorship § Humour § Internet § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Olympics Closing Ceremony

Well, here we are two short weeks later and the party’s over.  And everything that the opening ceremony was – a celebration of British history and culture, rebellion, anarchy, humour, literature, imperfection, solidarity – the closing ceremony wasn’t. As someone posted on Reddit’s /r/unitedkingdom thread about the closing ceremonies, “It’s like when you start playing crap […]

Posted 12 August 2012 § MemoryLane § Politics § Sports § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Roger Marin Played Regina Tonight, The Crowd Was Small But Mighty!

Tuesday night after a long weekend in a sleepy government town isn’t the easiest sell so it was a small crowd.  (“How small was it, Jason?”  Well, there was a bigger crowd when I saw Roger play in a friend’s garage in Calgary ten years ago.) But I still enjoyed the show – after a […]

Posted 07 August 2012 § Canada § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,